r/pastmaps is a subreddit with 954 members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests, and the community frequently discusses map, historical, historic, usa, and topographic.
Pastmaps is a community for appreciating, discussing, and sharing interesting and high-quality old historical maps and aerial imagery from the past.
You might fit right in if you enjoy: mapporn, map_porn, oldmaps, papertowns, cartography, topography, history, historyporn, geography, archeology, artifactporn
Popular Themes in r/pastmaps
#1
Advice Requests
: "McGill University Library has a great resource for past maps of southern Ontario"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/pastmaps
#1
Map
: "A pictorial Map of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD from 1935 (warning: there are a few outdated cultural depictions)"
96 posts
#2
Historical
: "A highly detailed Historical map of Honolulu, Hawaii in 1953 - even the coral reefs were mapped"
63 posts
#3
Historic
: "A Historical sketch from 1877 of Saint John, New Brunswick Canada before the great fire devastated most of the city"
31 posts
#4
Usa
: "A WWII tactical reconnaisance map of Savannah, GA Usa (1942)"
19 posts
#5
Topographic
: "A Topographic view of Fort Oglethorpe, GA in 1936 - it was originally created as a cavalry training post in 1902 on the TN border near Chattanooga"
10 posts
#6
California
: "A Japanese map of California from 1902, highlighting aspects of CA living to potential immigrants"
8 posts
#7
America
: "Bradford Scott - United States of America (1816)[6349 x 5101]"
7 posts
#8
Europe
: "The map of all the land situate at Sadberge in ye County of DURHAM belonging to Brazen-Nose College in Oxford Surveyd, in the Year of our Lord 1757 by John Lund (1757)[5686 x 3052]"
7 posts
#9
Pictorial
: "A Pictorial map of Adams, Massachusetts USA from 1882 with 11 detailed illustrations of key buildings from the time"
5 posts
#10
Georgia
: "A highly detailed map of Camp Lawton, a civil war prisoner camp in Georgia that only operated for 6 weeks before shutting down due to Sherman's advance (1864)"
4 posts
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Last updated: November 10, 2025